EILEEN BELL investigates Mull Theatre Company’s search for a new home, and looks ahead to their 2005 season

Saxophonist RAYMOND MACDONALD is co-leader of the Burt-MacDonald Quintet, one of the most adventurous jazz groups in Scotland. They return to An Tobar in Tobermory this month (as a quartet) to develop and perform a new commission

BRIAN MORTON recalls the life and work of his former teacher and subsequent friend and neighbour, novelist Robin Jenkins

EILEEN BELL joined the HI~Arts team on a recent media excursion in Argyll, including a visit to Kilmartin House Museum

The Aig An Oir art programme is highlighting the environmental and cultural importance of Scotland’s Atlantic Oakwoods. With two artists residencies successfully completed in Skye and Sunart, JOHN SAICH joins the third in Mid Argyll and meets the artists of the SWLA.

Visual artist URSULA ZIEGLER describes the project she is currently preparing for an exhibition in November at An Tobar on the Isle of Mull

ROSIE SOMERVILLE reports on the Kinloch Hills oakwoods project, part of the Aig An Oir (At The Edge) initiative to bring together art and Scotland’s woodlands.

Artist MARGARET GOSLEY is showing her works in felt and poetry at An Tobar this month.

Various venues, Islay, 10-12 September 2004

The beautiful island of Islay is famous for several things, including its whisky, but STUART TODD explains how it also came to have one of the most attractive jazz festivals in Scotland